Improvement in sod-cutters



NTT D STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JAooB e' NzL OF VICTOR, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOD-CUTTERS.

V Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 188,352, dated March 13, 1877; application filed August 19, 1876.

To all whom it may concern tor, in the county of Iowa and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Sod-Cutters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed Y drawings, making a part of this specification,

and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation ofa top view of this invention. Fig. 2 is a landside view of the same. .Fig. 3 is a bottom view, with partial section under the forward end of the share.

This invention has relation to means for outting the sod in plowing; and it consists in the A designates the land-side of a plow, and B' the share. 0 represents the standing colter or sod-shear, having a body-plate, a, perforated at z, for attachment to the land-side (which is also perforated) under the end of the share by bolts or rivets e. Extending upward and backward from the body-plate is the colter or shear-blade I), having the slightly-curved cut-' ting-edge c and the back edge d, running parallel, or nearly so, to the front, but quickly curving toward its end to form a strong point, In order to properly protect the point f at the foot of the shear, a notch seat, 0, is filed or otherwise formed in the narrow edge of the Iandside, near the extremity of the point h of the plow, into which the pointfof the shear is placed, being bent or turned inward for this j purpose, as shown.

' This sod-cutter is designed to be made of steel, and is adapted to be readily fitted to the majority of the plows now in use.

I am well aware that rearwardly and upwardly extending cutters have been connected with the land-side of a plow-casting by seating a downwardly-extending tang of the cutter into the side of the casting by bolting the cutter-base to the side of the casting, and by inserting the front of the cutter from the rear into a longitudinal slit in the casting; and I do not claim any of these devices.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the land-side A, having the notch-seat 0 formed in its exteriorface,

of the sod-shear C, having its base bolted to the land-side, and its point bent inward and seated in the said notch-seat, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

J AG OB GEN ZLY. 

